Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

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Daniel Walker <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 03:41 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
>> >>> 
>> >>> We'll need to change it.
>> >>
>> >> We can add a call to clocksource_rating_change() inside
>> >> acpi_pm_need_workaround(), are there deeper dependencies?
>> >
>> > There is no deeper dependencies.  If it's meaning
>> > clocksource_reselect() in current git, it sounds good to me.
>> 
>> Ah, I was forgetting why I didn't before. If it's a buggy pmtmr, we'll
>> get corrupted time until re-selecting the clocksource.
>> 
>> If anybody doesn't care this will be good with it. If not, we would
>> need to back to old one. IIRC, John did it.
>
> We could just reverse it, use the verified read function until we know
> it's a good PM timer, then switch to the faster read function.

Yes, we did it in old timer code.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
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